Jennifer Abrams
@jenniferabrams
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Author, Having Hard Conversations, Swimming in the Deep End, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work and Others. Coach, Speaker, Facilitator.
Palo Alto, CA, USA
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This is a great idea! Parent library in the front office of a school. If you have one, share what’s in it! If you don’t yet, what a great idea!
Thank you Fletcher Middle School for your parent collection mini library in the front office! Great idea!
#PaloAltoUSD
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If someone asks you, "Why do I have to collaborate with fellow teachers? Does it even pay off?" which research do you cite, which articles do you share, which books do you look to for some support for your answer. Let me know - thanks!
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The modern classroom is constantly evolving. We must adapt to the world of the student.
#ISTE17
#Education
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With my new book coming out in early 2021, I am hoping share more info with more followers. If you an educator interested in adult development and stretching at your learning edge, please follow me.
#stretchingatyourlearningedge
#growingupin2021
#inwardoutwardonward
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Saw this online. Loneliness or Freedom? Same silence. Different way of listening to it.
#innervoicelesson
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My father did this for me and my brother. I am still learning at 51. And as for being ‘intrigued’ by my mistakes? That ego strength is in development. Always grateful for these teachings.
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@WhitneyCummings
This has been said to me AND it was the BEST compliment I could get. I am A LOT, thank you!
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Fourth book out in March - The title will be "Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives" - Cover design to include something deep end-ish :). Getting close to publication! Exciting.
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I like this. So much to say without words.
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"Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce.
Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build" -
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Remember, you are the sum of the 5 people closest to you. Choose wisely.
#MondayMotivation
#Advice
#quoteoftheday
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Who's doing some terrific PD to help K-1 teachers w/ distance learning this fall? Share any & all names of folks, links, resources, etc!
@ChristinaNosek
@hklageman
@BQDressler
@KristinASimmers
@Bonesteelvt
@fastcrayon
@cathygassenheim
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As one researcher put it, “Your group of friends are better than any drug or anti-aging supplement, and will do more for you than just about anything.” The Power of Positive People
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Hard Conversations: Want to be productive? Use a protocol. NSRF has terrific protocols to support honest conversations.
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Heading to the EARCOS Leadership Conference in Bangkok - excited to be together again and stretch at our edges - if you are there, please find me - so good to see people in person!
#elc2022
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What a sweet 51st birthday I had. Meditation, a good workout, some productive work time, a martini & a good meal with friends, & a lot gratitude for a great life full of meaningful conversations w/colleagues & friends worldwide. I am blessed. See many of you in 2018! L'Chaim!
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My new book is in the house! So fun!
Please check it out- - and if it is a book you think might be of help, use, interest or need for your district/board, school, organization or team, information for how to purchase it (e-book or print) is there! Thanks!
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What in your life is calling you, when all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside, and the wild iris blooms by itself in the dark forest, what still pulls on your soul? - Rumi
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In a competition between someone who knows the most and someone who is willing to learn the most, the edge usually goes to the curious and empathic professional, not the one who is simply protecting what’s already known. - Seth Godin
#stretchatyourlearningedges
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Best compliment from a participant in my workshop: "Listening to you speak was like hearing my own thoughts out loud without the risk of me getting in trouble!"
#hardconversations
#genxertwin
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Don’t skimp on PD funding - kids depend on us to know how to teach for our students to learn.
#titleIIA
#learnfwd17
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This is so true for so many of us.
@PeterMDeWitt
is a courageous writer and terrific person and speaks about jealousy so honestly here. Bravo. 5 Ways I Allowed Stress and Anxiety to Control My Attitude
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“Apologetic language needs to end now”
@ViviennePorritt
🙌🏼 my one to start using is “When can I expect an update?”
@WomenEdNE
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As I move back into my writing of book
#4
, this quote gives me courage. "Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure. - Baruch Spinoza
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. - Sir Francis Bacon
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Please retweet to your friends so all who might find this of interest will know to join us. No role playing, lots of laughs and a chance to learn how to find your voice around what matters to you.
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"Drop your expectations and be kind to yourself. Trust me, everyone else has a messy mind too, whether you can see it or not." - Julianna Raye.
#SundayThoughts
#SundayCompassion
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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." - Dear Abby
#engageinreciprocity
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Having Hard Conversations: Reframing it as Compassionate Directness. How to Give Compassionate Feedback While Still Being Constructive
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How am I complicit? How can I grapple with my own racist behaviors and beliefs? How can I further educate myself on this global phenomenon? How can I do better?
How am I complicit? How can I grapple with my own racist behaviors and beliefs? How can I further educate myself on this global phenomenon? How can I do better?
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I am so touched! It’s rainy outside and I was feeling a bit tender and then this bouquet arrived! Thank you
@LearningForward
and
@SuzanneBouffard
for the opportunity to write a column for The Learning Professional this past year! Your kindness means a lot to me!
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Getting to a place of maybe I can just get to next steps. Needed to do the laundry & sleep. What could be next? My 51st birthday is on Tuesday. What might be around the bend for this coming year? The anticipation...travel, romance, doing great work? All of above, I hope!
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Hard Conversations can be humane & growth producing - they don’t have to be in all caps followed by an exclamation point. They ask us to speak as our best adult self & communicate with the belief in the other person’s potential too.
#allofusaregrowing
#voicelessons
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We’re looking at YOU teachers! Happy
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
to those who do so much everyday.
#Education
#TeachersMatter
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We need this as adults!
"An Emotional Planner gives kids the chance to think about their emotions in advance of an event, like a field trip, and begin the steps to learn how to manage those emotions using strategies." So smart! See other ideas for emotional regulation here:
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Finding your voice around what matters is essential. Discomfort may arise. And, we can work to sit w/that discomfort yet still speak up. If something is educationally/socially unsound, physically unsafe or emotionally damaging to yourself or to others, speak up.
#voicelessons
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Preach it. Truth.
A collaborative faculty is worth more than a school improvement plan.
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“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” – Leymah Gbowee
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Hmmm. I wonder if this can extend to adults...
Middle school girl: “Teachers should never ask a kid, ‘Are you okay?’ We’ll always say, ‘I’m fine.’ It’s the biggest lie we tell.”
Me: “What should they do instead?”
Her: “Don’t ASK us anything—just TELL us we’re a mess. Say, ‘You don’t seem like yourself. Let’s talk today.’”
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SO SO wonderful. Watch the whole minute. Worth it.
This baby playing the drums with daddy is the best thing you’ll see today.
Come for the drums - stay for the boo-boo kiss...
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. - Pema Chodron
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This fan girl thing is so sweet & so kind. AND, I am just an author writing in my sweats and glasses with no makeup in my second bedroom, aka 'home office,' usually wearing slippers & trying to help my fellow colleagues as we all get better at supporting students!
#LearnFwd17
Who just fan-girled
@jenniferabrams
at the
@LearningForward
Conference? This girl! Thanks Jennifer for being so gracious!
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Adult development is Leadership development. We must be growing the adults in schools AND the students. Adult growth is KEY.
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Grant Woods AEA, Cedar Rapids, Iowa! Here we go! Find your voice around what matters!
#voicelessons
#stretchatyourlearningedges
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Got to the Gaylord Texan Resort in Dallas and ready for
@LearningForward
’s conference starting tomorrow! Who’s here? Please find me and say hi! Facilitating ‘Swimming in the Deep End’ pre-conference session Sunday - excited!
#LF2018
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Terrific panel of women discussing gender (in)equality in education and educational leadership including
@NancyinLux1
@LizAMFree
@sharymarshall
and other great female leaders too.
#gotyourback
#ECISLISBON19
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The only way to become whole is to put our arms lovingly around everything we’ve shown ourselves to be: self-serving & generous, spiteful & compassionate, cowardly & courageous, treacherous & trustworthy. We must say to ourselves & the world, ‘I am all of the above.’” P. Palmer
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I am honestly writing a book in 2020 about that very idea... stay connected!
"Clarity before accountability" I agree strongly with this notion from
@jenniferabrams
@ProLearnInt
e.g. How can teachers be appraised on the idea of agency if they don't completely understand the meaning of it?
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One of my favorites from Maya Angelou, "People will never forget how you made them feel."
#WednesdayWisdom
#QuoteOfTheDay
#Quotes
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Something to remember..."All beautiful relationships do not depend on how well we understand someone, but it depends on how well we manage the misunderstanding." -Unknown
#WednesdayWisdom
#quoteoftheday
#Advice
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well. - The Buddha
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Finished a weekend at Tassajara - a retreat with blissful heaps of Zen meditation-arrived at airport this morning and no TSA line at 6am- and I didn’t see CLEAR on the other side til too late. My ‘off the cushion’ opportunity to practice has presented itself.
#breathing
#Monday
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Remember, you are the sum of the 5 people closest to you. Choose wisely.
#MondayMotivation
#Advice
#quoteoftheday
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"People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely." -Hans F. Hansen
#WednesdayWisdom
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
#MondayMotivation
#Inspiration
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Delighted to be with the amazing
@NNSTOY
folks here in Las Vegas for the National Teacher Leadership Conference. Keynote tomorrow on Finding Our Voices Around What Matters. This group has a terrific vibe of inclusion. Thanks for the welcome!
#TeachersLeading
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It’s starting! The Art of Coaching Conference is ON!
@artofcoaching1
@Ready4rigor
#aocc2018
#BrightMorning
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"Love the one in you who is sad. Love the one in you who is scared. Love the one in you who is angry. Love the one in you who is lonely. Love ALL the ones who you are, and then you will know how to love the world." -Elizabeth Gilbert
#ThursdayThoughts
#Quote
#Advice
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In Escondido 1,2,3 in the Vineyard Tower getting ready to start swimming in the deep end
#LearnFwd18
! Conversations starting soon!
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This type of room might very well get me to work out on the road - love the concept!!
#fivefeettofitness
@HiltonHotels
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Beautifully said.
Professionalism doesn't mean suppressing our emotions. It's about expressing them in a way that maintains standards of respect and skill.
Professionals aren't immune to anger, fear, or sadness. They just refuse to let these emotions compromise their civility and competence.
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Adults in schools are sometimes the challenge, not the students. We need to stretch ourselves to grow (up)-to develop ourselves & be at our learning edges, and we can do it. It'll energize us to do the work & we'll be stronger from our engagement & support of each other.
#grow
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So excited to be with Education Scotland
@EducationScot
to find our voice around what matters!!Having Hard Conversations
#EdScotAbrams
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher. - Ajahn Chah
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One of the kindest comments ever....
#grateful
When the after lunch part 2 of an all day professional learning session makes you wish there was a part 3 after dinner, you know the learning and facilitation are
#real
and
#authentic
.
@jenniferabrams
#LearnFwd18
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
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You have permission to make a drastic change in your life, to take the road less traveled.
#MondayMotivation
#MotivationalMonday
#Quotes
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We are not caterpillars. Our progression to butterfly-hood is not guaranteed. The challenge of humanity is that living a long time does not guarantee wisdom. Age does not guarantee growth. -Modern Elder Academy
#growingup
#stretchingyourlearningedges
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Our ability to collaborate & our willingness to engage respectfully w/ one another matters for the health of the school & the collective well-being of all within it.
@jenniferabrams
#TheLearningPro
via
@LearningForward
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Inspiring words via Stephen Covey. It's so important for us to truly listen to one another. It's not always about the win.
#WednesayWisdom
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Thank you for capturing my Communicating in Challenging Times webinar so beautifully- glad you were there!
@EARCOSORG
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Day 1 is in the books. Great group of tchrs from public, faith based & independent schools all learning how to have humane, growth producing conversations with parents, guardians and caretakers. Tomorrow a new group will swim in the deep end!
#bcps
#baltimorecounty
#voicelessons
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Wrote my new book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work because we, the adults, need to develop & can. Schools should support child & adult development. Human development isn’t an indulgence-we’re losing teachers because we don’t expect us all to mature & grow.
The fact that most teachers leave the profession because of other adults really captures the essence of schools.
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You had that hard conversation. Now what? Tips for what could happen next so you don't avoid the individual for months.
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Clarity before Accountability.
When people disappoint us, it’s not due to their actions. It’s because their actions fell short of our expectations.
You can’t control what people do, but you can choose not to let their actions drive your emotions.
Be clearer about your expectations—or set more realistic ones.
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"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." — George Orwell -
@farnamstreet
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Excited to facilitate at this virtual summit - 27th of May 3pm PST! Putting some new work into the world!
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Now this is perspective and gratitude in one visual. Powerful.
Chinese doctors bowing to 11 year old boy with brain cancer who saved lives by donating his organs.
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@LadyBeastB
I have a mission to bring my work to the world to help others find their voices around what matters and to have hard conversations in humane and growth producing ways. I have companionship and family-just not in a traditional, nuclear family sense. And I am happy and fulfilled.
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I am proud and inspired. This group of UVA students found their voices around what matters.
#courage
These are literally young UVA students age 17-23 standing up to a sea of white supremacists and neo-Nazis surrounding them
#Charlottesville
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Aloha! I am delighted to celebrate
#teacherleadership
by virtually joining the Hawaii DOE Teacher Leader Academy Graduation!! Congratulations!!!
#findingyourvoicearoundwhatmatters
#HIDOE
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@PeterHotez
@DrLeanaWen
Kudos and gratitude to you both-docs who helped us thru and keep helping us make sense of medical challenges with sane, serious and clear explanations and information that we need. Thank you. You are appreciated.
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Truth. "The more time you spend complaining about what you deserve, the less time you have to focus on what you can create. Focus on what you can control." - James Clear
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The book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work will be out at the end of the month!
Always inspired by
@jenniferabrams
Can't wait for a) her book to drop & b) her workshop presentation at the next
@WomenEdDE
virtual conference!
"Schools should be not just in the child development business, but they should be in the human development business."
#ECISLeadership21
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Gates Foundation looks for 3 qualities in a professional coach: High competence, medium ego and low maintenance. Do U have those qualities?
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In 2020, I am writing a book about what it means to be a professional (and an adult) at work. My thoughts so far - My Voice Lessons for January is out.
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@NancyRomm
My brother and I had the cantor sing ‘My Way’ at my father’s funeral. It was his favorite song and spoke to him deeply. I take those lyrics into my life as I move forward without him here. I hope they are singing together with Frank right now.
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